On Using and Extending the MsBackendRawFileReader Backend

Tobias Kockmann1* and Christian Panse1,2**

1Functional Genomics Center Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich
2Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

*Tobias.Kockmann@fgcz.ethz.ch
**cp@fgcz.ethz.ch

Abstract

MsBackendRawFileReader implements an MsBackend for the Spectra package using Thermo Fisher Scientific’s NewRawFileReader .Net libraries. The package is generalizing the functionallity provided by the rawrr. The vignette utilizes data provided through the tartare package.

Package

MsBackendRawFileReader 1.11.5

The figure below depicts the idea of the Spectra framework. For a detailed description, read (RforMassSpectrometry Package Maintainer, Laurent Gatto, Johannes Rainer, Sebastian Gibb 2020).